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    Do Coincidences Have Meaning?

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dzm8kTIj_0M
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    Arbitrage Strategy

    The introduction is good. "Just like a a drunk man leaving a bar follows a random walk. His dog also follows a random walk on its own. The paths will diverge ... Then they go into a park where dogs are not allowed to be untied. Therefore the drunk man puts a strap on his dog and both enter...
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    Arbitrage Strategy

    Is that time series property called stationary? Can Detrending & Differencing really make nonstationary become stationary? http://www.investopedia.com/articles/trading/07/stationary.asp
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    Arbitrage Strategy

    Are these considered arbitrage? A fun manager with 1Bil AUM front run leveraged ETF or index futures with his personal$ right before dumping-investing 1Bil of client's $ into stocks of the same area A fun manager buys, say any highly leveraged futures or fx pair with clients$ & short the...
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    If trend following, can money management save you in chop?

    Yeah, why even use charts & high tech software, just go with your emotions, the rest would take care of itself.:) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2we_B6hDrY If that doesn't work, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=au2mOdwGENk
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    Do you see patterns in Random Walks?

    Fractal confluence in smaller timeframe occurs sometimes due to stochastic streaks, not because of mass behaviour confluence, other than major intervention, of course. http://wizardofodds.com/image/ask-the-wizard/streaks.pdf
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    Do you see patterns in Random Walks?

    From a Mathematician view, if you flip 10 thousand times, you will get even longer stochastic type 'trend' of consecutive heads or tails... Maybe the difference between deterministic and stochastic trends is just a matter of perspective. Similarly, from a behaviourial science view, price has...
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    Do you see patterns in Random Walks?

    Daytrading. Also, probability of Streaks itself is Not a binomial distribution like coin toss probability. Consecutive heads or tails requires Markov chain analysis and is Not an independent event scenerio.
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    Do you see patterns in Random Walks?

    Short term market has no memory.
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    Do you see patterns in Random Walks?

    Could the Nature of short term Trends be simply a streak of consecutive heads or tails contained within the randomness cloud surrounding an "entropy increasing" true long term trend e.g, decreasing value of currency or inflation will cause dow index to increase on a up trend certainly over...
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    If trend following, can money management save you in chop?

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infinite_Regress_(Star_Trek:_Voyager) Look at the picture on the right:) As described, it is a "multiple personality disorder", forumers are prone to this, could be contagious:p
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    If trend following, can money management save you in chop?

    The above first statement does not seem to tally with the rest of the comments. What does it mean by "win rate is only probable in an infinite regress fashion"? If win rate is infinitely random for trading, then statistics like expectancy is meaningless for traders since "You cannot know...
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    If trend following, can money management save you in chop?

    The 2 simulation pictures of different win rates you posted showed the final profits numbers of same colored profit lines(comparing the 2 pics) to be quite different, how did you conclude that win rate which affects streak of losses 'does not affect profit'?
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    Math PhD strategist looking for capital

    This is interesting, how did you get the details below? :)
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    Using a hedge instead of a stop

    Good article...how do you find these more in-depth but easy to read pairstrading stuff?
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    Intraday Pair Trading/Stat Arb

    Hi bones,When do you take profit for divergent approach?
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    Intraday Pair Trading/Stat Arb

    Good question, why not just trade the single trend driver? How about trading for intraday mean reversion only in the direction of weekly pair divergence? Which is better for direction, weekly or monthly divergence trend?
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    What to do for fun?

    Shave your whole body, your cat, dog
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    Can What Happened to MF Happen to IB?

    Financial companies tickers are like the good O' 90s days of Dot com/gone companies.:p
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    Ipad/Tablets or Notebook

    You can get a windows7 tablet on ebay for about $300.
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